ArticleBMC plant biology2024
Alleviation of salinity stress by EDTA chelated-biochar and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on maize via modulation of antioxidants activity and biochemical attributes.
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- A Comprehensive Review of the Biochar-Mediated Alleviation of Salt Stress.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Boosting salinity resilience and silymarin production in Silybum marianum: a sustainable strategy using mango-residue biochar and foliar α-tocopherol.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Halophilic bacteria and archaea in salinity-resilient agriculture: mechanisms and multi-omics perspectives.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Biochar and GABiodegradation · 2025Article
- Salt-Tolerant Bacteria Support Salinity Stress Mitigating Impact of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Maize (Microorganisms · 2025Article
- The Impacts of Farming Activities on the Coevolutionary Structure of Plant Rhizosphere Soil Microbial Communities.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- The interplay of salt stress and Azolla aqueous extract on ionic balance, secondary metabolism, and gene expression in wheat seedlings.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Mitigating drought stress in fenugreek through synergistic effects of alanine and potassium-enriched biochar.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Exogenous betaine enhances salt tolerance of Glycyrrhiza uralensis through multiple pathways.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Salinity stress adversely affects agricultural productivity by disrupting water uptake, causing nutrient imbalances, and leading to ion toxicity. Excessive salts in the soil hinder crops root growth and damage cellular functions, reducing photosynthetic capacity and inducing oxidative stress. Stomatal closure further limits carbon dioxide uptake that negatively impact plant growth. To ensure sustainable agriculture in salt-affected regions, it is essential to implement strategies like using biofertilizers (e.g. arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi = AMF) and activated carbon biochar. Both amendments can potentially mitigate the salinity stress by regulating antioxidants, gas exchange attributes and chlorophyll contents. The current study aims to explore the effect of EDTA-chelated biochar (ECB) with and without AMF on maize growth under salinity stress. Five levels of ECB (0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8%) were applied, with and without AMF. Results showed that 0.8ECB + AMF caused significant enhancement in shoot length (~ 22%), shoot fresh weight (~ 15%), shoot dry weight (~ 51%), root length (~ 46%), root fresh weight (~ 26%), root dry weight (~ 27%) over the control (NoAMF + 0ECB). A significant enhancement in chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll content, photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate and stomatal conductance was also observed in the condition 0.8ECB + AMF relative to control (NoAMF + 0ECB), further supporting the efficacy of such a combined treatment. Our results suggest that adding 0.8% ECB in soil with AMF inoculation on maize seeds can enhance maize production in saline soils, possibly via improvement in antioxidant activity, chlorophyll contents, gas exchange and morphological attributes.
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